EM-DAT: Nepal Natural Disaster Impact Statistics by Subtype

Delivering aggregated natural hazard statistics for Nepal, maintained by the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED). It tracks disaster frequency, fatalities, and economic impact categorized by year and disaster subtype. The data is formatted for humanitarian interoperability using HXL tags.

Use Cases

• Analyzing the 'total number of deaths' per 'disaster subtype' to identify the most lethal hazard types in Nepal
• Modeling 'economic losses (adjusted)' over time to assess the increasing financial risk of natural hazards
• Correlating the 'number of disasters' with the 'total number of people affected' to measure disaster intensity trends

Strengths

• Authoritative data sourced from the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED)
• Includes HXL tags for standardized humanitarian data exchange
• Provides inflation-adjusted economic loss figures for longitudinal financial analysis

Limitations

• Aggregated format prevents the analysis of individual disaster event characteristics
• Geographic scope is restricted to national-level data for Nepal only
• Economic loss fields in disaster databases often contain null values for older or smaller events

Provenance

Source

Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED)

Collection Method

Aggregated from the EM-DAT global disaster database

Freshness

Updated as of March 2026 per metadata.

Geography

Nepal